Ania Tomicka’s Mystical ‘Omen’ Paintings

Ania Tomicka’s stirring figurative paintings have a particularly mystical quality within her latest body of work, “Omen.” In a show currently at Modern Eden Gallery under that title, several works by the Italian artist are collected. Often featuring feminine figures, the work calls upon literary and art histories.

The gallery offers some insight into Tomicka’s background and her current body of work: “When she was only 9 she moved to Italy, where she started to draw seriously. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice and the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence where she found inspiration in the Italian high renaissance paintings and iconography. Her newest body of work continues this academic tradition, but presents the figure amidst backgrounds which call to mind passages from Dante’s Inferno, and lend dark and mysterious narratives to her beautifully rendered subjects.”

See more work within “Omen” below.

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Ania Tomicka, painting, Pop Surrealism

acrylic, Justin Lim, painting

June 21, 2018

Justin Lim’s recent acrylic and enamel paintings convene symbols of both nature’s beauty and manmade destruction. The dominant aspect of each work, whether a mushroom cloud or floral arrangement, is only a point of entry for a work that reveals itself as critiquing multiple concepts at a time.

Gary McMillan Guides an Expedition in ‘Galapagos’ Series

Gary McMillan, painting, Pop Surrealism

December 31, 2018

In Gary McMillan’s “Galapagos” series, the painter guides us into alien ecosystems, inviting viewers along as explorers to make any observations they can from the creatures and activity there. The work is rooted in the artist’s interest in both science and art. And McMillan says he is “interested in how one makes sense of new things through remembered experience of the familiar.”

Jenny Morgan’s ‘SKINDEEP’ Explores 10 Years of Painter’s Career

figurative, Jenny Morgan, painting

May 29, 2017

Jenny Morgan’s honed blend of abstraction and realistic portraiture unlocks new paths to the personalities she paints. In a new survey of the past decade of her work, viewers can see how that sensibility evolved—and how she approaches giving the portrait treatment to celebrities, when commissioned by national publications. The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver hosts this exhibition, which runs through Aug. 27. Morgan created the cover for Hi-Fructose Vol. 39, and she was last featured on HiFructose.com here.

Masaaki Sasamoto’s Gilded, Surreal Worlds

illustration, Masaaki Sasamoto, painting

March 14, 2018

Tokyo-born artist Masaaki Sasamoto creates surreal worlds bathed in gold, mixing mythological iconography and the painter’s own, distinctive figures. The butterfly is one of the most common components in Sasamoto’s work, whether enveloping his subjects or fully embedded into them. Some of these scenes also carry notes of steampunk and futuristic, manga-inspired flourishes.

Ania Tomicka’s Mystical ‘Omen’ Paintings

Justin Lim’s Paintings Are Convergences of Nature, Destruction

Gary McMillan Guides an Expedition in ‘Galapagos’ Series

Jenny Morgan’s ‘SKINDEEP’ Explores 10 Years of Painter’s Career

Masaaki Sasamoto’s Gilded, Surreal Worlds

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